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United States nationhood and my forthcoming book

Posted September 12th, 2019 & filed under American Character, American Nations, Colorado, nationalism, Union, US History.

I recently completed my sixth book, which I expect will be on sale in the summer 2020. It’s on the struggle to create a story of United States nationhood, told… Read more »

A colloquium in Boulder

Posted April 24th, 2019 & filed under American Character, American Nations, Colorado, speaking, US History, US politics.

Earlier this month I participated in a small colloquium out in Boulder on “Liberty and the American Character,” featuring a mostly conservative group of scholars and thought leaders, many of… Read more »

John Hickenlooper’s time Down East in 1970

Posted March 18th, 2019 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Colorado, education, Maine, Maine history, Portland Press Herald, Unsettled, US politics.

A few years ago, I was in Denver writing this POLITICO story on how the city built a metro-wide light rail system from scratch, a story that led to my… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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